Colored People Are Angry
Alton, Ills., Sept. 21.- The public schools of this city opened Monöay under the new arrangement separating the colored children from asscciation with the white pupils, the former being assigned to two r.ew schools .by themselves. There is much dissatisfaction among the colored people over this change, based on race prejudices and it was feared that there might be trouble. In anticipation of this the city council vested all janitors in the white schools with pólice authority, but there has been no demonstration of any kind so far. The colored citizens haveraised a purse of $500 and state emphatically that they will fight the new order en the grounds of justice, to the highest court.
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